Reporter Richard Hunt reads the headlines from Lancashire
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00:00 Hello, it's Richard Hunt with some of our latest headlines.
00:04 A heartless criminal burgled the home of a grieving Blackpool woman
00:08 as she was out scattering her husband-to-be ashes after his sudden death while on holiday.
00:13 Donna Jones's fiancé was diagnosed with leukaemia and died just days before they were due to get married.
00:20 But tragedy struck further for the family when Miss Jones returned home from Jess' funeral
00:25 to find she had been burgled of some of his most valuable belongings, including his wedding ring.
00:30 Police said a dedicated team of officers were looking into the case.
00:34 Limits are to be placed on how much building and DIY waste can be dumped at Lancashire's household recycling centres
00:40 by residents using vans or trailers.
00:43 Lancashire County Council's Cabinet has agreed to new rules for inert materials such as rubble, concrete, soil or plasterboard
00:51 after the volume of such material being taken to the facilities has almost doubled in four years
00:56 equating to an additional 9,700 tonnes of inert rubbish per year.
01:02 Now, County Hall has decided to restrict inert waste arriving by van or trailer to three 25kg bags or items
01:10 or the equivalent per visit. The limit will not apply to residents using cars.
01:15 A Lancashire-based business has opened its 2024 Apprenticeship Scheme to applicants.
01:21 The HomeSafe Group, one of the UK's largest providers and installers of residential fire-sprinting protection systems
01:27 is working in partnership with Burnley College to deliver the scheme.
01:31 It will take on six apprenticeships who will follow its three to four year Building Services Engineering programme at the College.
01:38 Firefighters went to the scene of a house fire in a village near Morgan.
01:43 Two fire engines from Lancaster and Morecambe attended a domestic building fire on Low Road, Middleton on Monday 12th February.
01:51 Firefighters used two breathing apparatus, one hose reel, one hearth kit and a positive pressure ventilation unit to extinguish the fire.
02:00 They were in attendance for an hour.
02:03 A Wigan director, spoken of her surprise after a cheerleading film made in the United States,
02:08 sought a number two in the Euclid Netflix charts. Zara Hayes' production Poms, starring Diane Keaton,
02:15 Jackie Weaver and Pam Grier, appeared on the streaming service over the weekend.
02:20 Poms follows a group of women from a retirement community who decide to start a cheerleading squad.
02:26 Zara is now back in Wigan and hoping to tell some local stories through the art of film.
02:31 Weather? It's going to be cloudy through most of the day with a 25% chance of rain. Let's hope it doesn't. Thank you.